Intro Painting: Painting as Verb

3 units

This studio course engages painting's active, performative, and expressive potential. Students explore systematic and embodied modes of painting, prioritizing iterative processes. Assignments challenge students to work with abstraction, series, structures, arrangements, and other active approaches to constructing a painted image. Course content is delivered through assigned projects, readings, and group discussions that engage with historical precendents and contemporary examples of systems-based methods in painting. Coursework is evaluated through class critique and one-on-one reviews with the instructor. This introductory course can serve as a prerequisite to upper level classes in Painting.